Ticket-punch



L. O. GROGKER.

TICKET PUNCH.

(No Model.)

No. 261,138 Patented July 18, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

LUTHER O. GROCKER, OF EAST BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS.

TICKET-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,138, dated July 18, 1882..

Application filed May .12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LUTHER O. GROCKER, of East Braintree, in the county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Punches, of which the following is a description sufticiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the figure is an isometrieal perspective view, showing the punch in position for use.

My invention relates to that class of punches which are principally employed by conductors for punching or cutting railway passengertickets; and it consists in providing the punch with aretainin g slot or receptacle for the ticket, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more eifective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

The extreme simplicity of my improvement renders an elaborate description of the same unnecessary.

Referring to the drawing, the handle A,jaws

the stripper E, the slot being designed to reoeive the edge of the ticket and enable it to be held steadily in a proper position while being punched, which cannot be accomplished so perfectly where the throat of the punch terminates at said joint.

Having thus explained my improvement, what I claim is- A ticket-punch having the stripper E connected at its outer end to the jaw of the handle A and jointed by its inner end at a in the throat of the punch to the handle B, said lastnamed handle being provided with the lateral slot (7, extending inwardly beyond the inner end of the stripper, substantially as specified.

LUTHER O. ()ROOKERa Witnesses:

JOHN J. LOUD, M. M. BLANCHARD. 

